There is a reason why jade is so expensive that you don’t know! These facts tell you why

Recently, a sudden piece of bad news quickly spread across the circle of friends of people in the industry.

It is a great pity to hear that a colleague in the jade material market died suddenly.

Thinking back carefully, similar things have happened several times over the years.

As my colleagues lamented, working with jade is too stressful.

Maybe in many people's imagination, any piece of jade can be sold for thousands or even tens of thousands, so the jade, even if it is not bright and beautiful, should be quite moist.

Anyone who thinks so must have never been to Jieyang, let alone seen the jade material market in Jieyang in the early morning.

A corner of Jieyang Yudu Materials Market Night Market

In a city where buses stop running at 7pm, the nightlife can hardly be described as prosperous.

Except for a few entertainment venues, most people go to bed early unless they stay up late, but the jade material market is an exception.

Unlike the finished product trading market which is mostly open during the day, the material market is open at night.

Have you ever seen the jade material market in the early morning? There are more people than during the day!

The jade night market usually starts at eight o'clock in the evening. After some big jade merchants have bought raw stones from major public auctions and brought them back, they will release the unwrapped materials at the night market and supply them to small jade merchants.

Good materials are always in short supply, so countless people crowd in front of the stalls, waiting to rush over and scramble to grab the materials as soon as they come out.

This brightly lit and lively scene will continue until late at night before gradually dissipating.

The lively scene of "putting down the knife"

Therefore, staying up late has become a common occurrence for jade workers and jade carvers. Jade carving is an extremely time-consuming job.

The creation of a work can take as short as a few days or weeks, or as long as a few months or even years.

Many jade carvers work more than ten hours a day, which means they work day and night without rest all year round.

Due to long periods of high-intensity work, every jade carver has suffered from occupational diseases to a greater or lesser extent, including poor eyesight (conjunctivitis), cervical spondylosis, periarthritis of the shoulder, noise-induced deafness, swollen hands and joint pain, chapped skin, etc.

Of course, work is not all about hard work, there is also joy. The happiest moment is when the work is completed and recognized.

In recent years, there have been more and more news reports of sudden death due to overwork, but when it happens around us, we still feel caught off guard.

In places we can’t see, there are countless people who are staggering forward under the heavy pressure of life, and who knows when they will suddenly fall down.

May fate treat everyone who strives to live kindly.

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